Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician, third Premier of West Canada (died 1858)

Robert Baldwin

Co-Premier of Province of Canada

Robert Baldwin was an Upper Canadian lawyer and politician who with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine of Lower Canada, led the first responsible government ministry in the Province of Canada. "Responsible Government" marked the province's democratic…

List of joint premiers of the Province of Canada

This is a list of the joint premiers of the Province of Canada, who were the heads of government of the Province of Canada from the 1841 unification of Upper Canada and Lower Canada until Confederation in 1867.